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Samuel Brevdeh, president of shuttered bill payment giant Cashpoint Network Services Inc., pleaded guilty on Nov. 18 on charges he masterminded a massive check-kiting scheme using ACH debits as its instrument.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, Brevdeh, faced with shortfalls from field agents who collected bill payments made at various payments locations, began flooding holding accounts at JP Morgan Chase & Co., Mellon Financial Corp., North Fork Bank, and Sun National Bank with ACH debits he knew would bounce, and then made up the debits with other bogus debits. Meanwhile, he used the float for operating funds.
In many ways, Brevdeh's scam revived memories of the similar, 1985 kiting scam at E.F. Hutton & Co., which brought down that previously respected brokerage firm. There's one exception: In the Hutton scam, which treated the ...